2018-06-08 14:29 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>: ... > > > P.S. Then I bumped into "Toward Semantic Foundations for Program Editors" > (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08694.pdf) > which was over my head but I guess it might be interesting to people working > in UI area.
Interesting, and not that complex when you look at it in a greater scheme of things (once you get past their complexity of incomplete programs layer). However, some of the stuff seems hard to solve (all of it is about finding what could fill the holes of an incomplete program, according to your definition of what an incomplete program is... their's is not Smalltalk's) Once you have a theory about finding what could be in those holes, then some of it can be solved elegantly. And, in some theories, you have excellent results (i.e. formally sound, and fast in practice) on determining what could be in the holes. Thanks for the link, Thierry
